Hearth: a city builder for worldbuilders

How large a city a land can feed, what it makes, what it must buy, who works there and what lies under it: by place, rock, technique, production, size, trade, staple, regime and culture.

• A city that lives on barley and dredge: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on cassava: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on deep mushrooms: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on maize: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on millet: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on oats: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on potatoes: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on pulses: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on rice: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on rye and maslin: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on sorghum: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on wheat: how much land, in which climates
• A city that lives on yams and other tubers: how much land, in which climates
• A city under the mountain: how many caverns to feed it
• A famine in a medieval city: the dead, the idle land, the years to come back
• A town in the alpine meadow, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the alpine meadow, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the alpine meadow: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the barrens, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the barrens, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the barrens: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the cold desert, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the cold desert, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the cold desert: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the flooded grassland, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the flooded grassland, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the flooded grassland: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the grassland, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the grassland, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the grassland: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the hot desert, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the hot desert, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the hot desert: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the ice sheet, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the ice sheet, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the ice sheet: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the mediterranean scrub, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the mediterranean scrub, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the mediterranean scrub: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the savanna, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the savanna, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the savanna: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the taiga, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the taiga, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the taiga: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the temperate conifer forest, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the temperate conifer forest, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the temperate conifer forest: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the temperate forest, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the temperate forest, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the temperate forest: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the tropical dry forest, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the tropical dry forest, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the tropical dry forest: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the tropical rainforest, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the tropical rainforest, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the tropical rainforest: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the tundra, on a river: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the tundra, on the coast: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• A town in the tundra: how large, what feeds it, what it makes
• Apothecaries and herbalists in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Aqueduct and fountains: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Arms and armour in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Bakers and cooks in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Beer in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Brewers and taverners in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Building stone in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Butchers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Camels in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Canals and locks: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Candles in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Carters in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Cattle and hides in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Chandlers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Charcoal in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Cheese in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Clans and chiefdoms: who holds the land, and what it does to a city
• Clay and bricks in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Clergy in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Cloth in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Clover and turnips: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Coal in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Coal: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Copper and bronze in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Copyists in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Cotton in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Dates in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Dwarven (fantasy): words for a city's temples, rulers and trades
• Dye plants in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Filtered water: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Fish in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Fishmongers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Flax in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Flow watchers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Free farmers under a tax: who holds the land, and what it does to a city
• Furs in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Gemstones in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Glass in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Glassmakers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Goats in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Gold in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Goldsmiths in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Grain in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Granite: minerals, ores and what a city can dig
• Great slave estates: who holds the land, and what it does to a city
• Guano and nitrates: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Guards in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Gunpowder in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Gunpowder: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Heavy plough: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Herbs in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Herring busses and salting at sea: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Honey and wax in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Horse collar: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Horses in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Hot-spring bathkeepers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• How much land to feed a city of 1,000 people
• How much land to feed a city of 1,000,000 people
• How much land to feed a city of 10,000 people
• How much land to feed a city of 100,000 people
• How much land to feed a city of 3,000 people
• How much land to feed a city of 30,000 people
• How much land to feed a city of 300,000 people
• Imperial Rome: words for a city's temples, rulers and trades
• Inca (Quechua): words for a city's temples, rulers and trades
• Innkeepers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Iron in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Irrigation: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Ivory in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Lava smiths in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Lava steel in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Lead in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Leatherwork in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Limestone and chalk: minerals, ores and what a city can dig
• Lords and tribute: who holds the land, and what it does to a city
• Maize in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Mali (Mande): words for a city's temples, rulers and trades
• Manure: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Marble in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Marble: minerals, ores and what a city can dig
• Marl and lime: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Masons and carpenters in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Medieval Arab-Persian world: words for a city's temples, rulers and trades
• Medieval Europe: words for a city's temples, rulers and trades
• Merchants in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Metalled roads: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Millers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Miners in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Mint in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Money-changers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Nahua (Aztecs): words for a city's temples, rulers and trades
• Night soil (town waste spread on the fields): what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Notables in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Obsidian glass in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Ocean-going ships: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Olives and oil in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Orchards in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Paper in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Paper mill: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Parchment and books in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Pearls in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Physicians and healers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Pigs and bacon in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Pitch and tar in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Porters and boatmen in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Potato in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Potters in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Pottery in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Printers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Printing press: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Pumice in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Remedies in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Rice in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• River gravels and sands: minerals, ores and what a city can dig
• Salt beds: minerals, ores and what a city can dig
• Salt fish in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Salt in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Sandstone, shale and clay: minerals, ores and what a city can dig
• Schist and gneiss: minerals, ores and what a city can dig
• Scribes and public writers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Sewers: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Sharecropping: who holds the land, and what it does to a city
• Shipwrights in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Shipyards in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Silk in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Silver in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Smiths in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Song China: words for a city's temples, rulers and trades
• Spices in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Sugar cane in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Sulphur in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Tanners and cobblers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Tea in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• The districts of a medieval town: who works where
• The plague in a medieval city: the dead, the idle land, the years to come back
• Three-field rotation: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Timber in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Tin in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Ultramafic rock (peridotite, serpentinite): minerals, ores and what a city can dig
• Vaccination: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Vines and wine in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Vitrified ceramics in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Volcanic rock: minerals, ores and what a city can dig
• Watermills: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Weavers and fullers in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where
• Whale oil in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs
• Windmills: what it changes for a pre-industrial city
• Wool in a medieval or fantasy city: where it can be made, what it needs